13th The accounts for compensation of yourself,
for the clerks as well as for incidental expenses of the office are to
be rendered quarterly, the quarters of the fiscal year terminating on
the 30th Sept 31st December 31st March and 30th June.

Immediately after the close of each quarter you will
transmit certified accounts of Surveyor General's clerks and your own
per form herewith marked "F"--also for the liabilities incurred as incidental
expenses of the office, the incidental maybe sent at anytime.

14th The employees whom you may later into service
must prior to their entrance upon duty, take an oath, copy herewith marked
"G" to perform the same with fidelity and diligence as prescribed by "An
act to prescribe an oath of office and for other purposes" approved July
2d 1862 U. S. Statutes at Large Vol 12 page 502. Such oath of office you
will transmit to be filed among the archives of the Department as the
law directs.

15th You are herewith provided with a four pole
chain of a true standard measure which must always be retained in the
Surveyor General's office to regulate the chains of the Deputy Surveyors,
each of whom should take to the field a similar standard with which to
compare and test--from time to time the chains in practical use.

A standard of good measure will be procured from the
Superintendent of Weights and Measures to enable you to regulate the chains
of your Deputy Surveyors also, and until you are supplied with that measure
for the Surveyor General office of Montana, you will have to depend on
the standard chain.

16th You will communicate with the Department
as soon as practicable after have instituted the surveys of the Base and
Meridian lines, and when enabled understandingly to do so, you will report
the result of your observations and inquiries as to the particular portions
of Montana which may demand earliest attention.

You will submit your report as seasonably as possible
on the various subjects of your duties to be laid before Congress at the
next session accompanied by estimates of the appropriations judged by
you necessary for the Montana surveying service for the fiscal year which
will commence July 1, 1868 and end on the 30th June 1869. The estimates
should be sent in time to reach here by the first day of August next.
Your annual report of the surveying operations in duplicate should be
transmitted to this office so that the same may reach us by the first
day of September 1867.

17th To assist you in the organization of the
Surveyor General's office at Helena you will be supplied with the articles
for constituting a portion of the official records of the Surveyor General's
office and which are described in the accompanying schedule marked "I."

18th The law fixes the official hours for the
transaction of public business as follows: From 1st of April to the 1st
of October the office is to be kept open ten hours from the 1st of October
to the 1 of April eight hours, excepting Sundays the 25th December and
the 4th day of July.

19th Whilst the maximum allowance per mile is
established, you are to endeavor to get competent practical public land
surveyors to do the work at as much less rates as it can be done by experienced
well tried and faithful surveyors intimately acquainted with the public
land system of surveys. As a general rule you will restrict surveying
contracts to such limited fields of labor as will insure the work being
thoroughly done within the time fixed in contracts, say from four to six
months.

20th You will caution your Deputy Sur- veyors
to establish no meander corners at the intersection of the lines of public
surveys with mountains as there exists no authority of law for that purpose,
unless such corners coincide with the mile or half mile corners required
by law.

21st To enable you to render the surveying accounts
of the Deputies in proper shape, form "H" is inclosed herewith.

22nd The original township plats are to be protracted
from the field notes of surveys. These original plats you will retain
in your office, duplicates and triplicates may be copies of the originals
transferred on blank township plats--for the register of the local land
office and this office.

23rd The original and transcript plats must bear
even dates of your approval.

24th In entering into contracts for the survey
of the public lands, you will execute each contract in quadruplicate one
to be retained in your office, duplicate to be sent to the Commissioner,
triplicate to the first Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury and the quadruplicate
to be delivered to the contracting Deputy Surveyor.